Quaternary environmental changes in the drylands of China - A critical review

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 3219-3233

  Yang, Xiaoping ^a   Scuderi, Louis ^b   Paillou, Philippe ^c   Liu, Ziting ^a   Li, Hongwei ^a   Ren, Xiaozong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

China; Desert; Environmental change; Holocene; Human impact; MIS 3; Palaeoclimatology; Pleistocene; Sand sea

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAKES; MARINE ENGINEERING; RAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACKING RADAR;

CHINA; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENES; HUMAN IMPACT; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

LANDFORMS;

AMPLITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DESERTIFICATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FUTURE PROSPECT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA; SAHARA;

EID: 82455210803     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.009     Document Type: Review

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